CAREFUL!
This story nlwut the youngest of our guests, Princess' Victoria' Louise—"das Nestkukon" ((he as sho is called, of; the Kaiser's family—is characteristic i, of ; the famous... Hohonzollorti thriftiness, says an English paper. In the spring: 1 -of lflOS. just before the Imperial family' left for Corfu, a snilor costume was made for tho young Princess. Sho was delighted with hc.r new dress, hut she did not like the buttons on it.
"Could you not change tliemf" she asked tho dijessinaker.. . "Certainly, your Koyal High)ife.w;'/ ; >'Was; ;the. reply, "nothing easier,;',], hayo, of buttons at homo wliitjltMvtiitldiifiam' tho coslumo ''"Well, why-did you not choose thorn f;" "Why?. Because every button costs a mark." The I'rincoss thought that was dear, .but sifter somo hesitation she said: "Very well, I will ask papa after dinner, and let you know." The dressmaker waited till dinner wasoyer, and, then the Princess'enmo back looking rather disappointed arid said: "Noj papa won't allow it. Ho says amark a. button is too much; one. can't throw inoaey out of the window ill that way."
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Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1174, 8 July 1911, Page 10
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176CAREFUL! Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1174, 8 July 1911, Page 10
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